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How to watch 'Dear England' online – stream story of Gareth Southgate's England ahead of the World Cup for FREE

A four-part series recounts a dramatized version of how football nearly came home under Southgate

Tom’s Guide · May 24

Jodie Whittaker: ‘Just because it’s difficult doesn’t mean you should avoid it’

The controversy around Jodie Whittaker’s casting in Doctor Who is long gone for the actor, who after a string of TV hits is on to another winner in the new World Cup drama Dear England

Evening Standard · May 15

Jodie Whittaker: Gareth Southgate a ‘revolutionary’ football manager

The BBC adaptation of Dear England was created following a successful West End production that also starred Joseph Fiennes in the lead role.

Evening Standard · May 12

Gareth Southgate's kind revolution has a bittersweet ending in Dear England at the National

4/5 This is a team effort, which captures the communal joy and heartache of sport, and now boasts a proper ending

Evening Standard · Mar 19, 2025

Dear England: 'feelgood' Gareth Southgate play reviewed by a sports coaching expert

Dear England, a play about football manager Gareth Southgate, immaculately encapsulates the light and dark sides of the game.

The Conversation · Nov 1, 2023

Dear England at the National Theatre makes an unlikely stage hero out of Gareth Southgate

Our football correspondent puts on his commentators’ hat for the National Theatre’s latest kickabout

Evening Standard · Jun 21, 2023

Dear England review – touching, funny retelling of Gareth Southgate’s quiet revolution

National Theatre, LondonIt’s a game of two halves, but James Graham’s dramatisation of Southgate rescuing a languishing England team delivers tension and movement

The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2023

Dear England: ‘Footballers are like the modern Gladiator; stadiums are our Colosseums’

James Graham’s latest play unearths the Shakespearean dramas within the great game, and finds an unlikely hero in Gareth Southgate

Evening Standard · Jun 14, 2023

‘There’s something Shakespearean about Gareth Southgate’: the epic play about England’s hero

He came back from a disastrous penalty to reignite the English men’s football team – and inspire a country in the grip of gloom. Writer James Graham reveals how he turned the ‘quiet guy doing The Impossible Job’ into gripping drama

The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2023

Right to Dream’s vision helps children reach potential in football and beyond

Tom Vernon started RTD in Ghana in 1999 and its reach has extended to FC Nordsjælland’s chase for the Danish Superliga

The Guardian - UK · May 6, 2023